{"id":450502,"date":"2021-11-18T11:42:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T06:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450502"},"modified":"2021-11-18T11:42:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T06:12:48","slug":"india-major-driver-of-fuel-demand-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-major-driver-of-fuel-demand-puri\/","title":{"rendered":"India major driver of fuel demand: Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inviting global firms to invest in the opportunities in the country\u2019s oil and gas sector, Union minister of petroleum and natural gas Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday that the \u201creal growth story as a critical driver of (fuel) demand will come from India\u201d. Puri was speaking at the inauguration of the oil and gas sectoral floor in the India Pavilion at the Expo 2020 held in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing out the government\u2019s strategies for accelerating investments in the Indian oil and gas value chain, Puri said that steps have been taken to increase the areas under oil and gas exploration. The aim to increase the share of natural gas in the country\u2019s energy mix from the current level of 6% to 15% by 2030 will itself require around $60 billion of investments, the minister added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inviting global firms to invest in the opportunities in the country\u2019s oil and gas sector, Union minister of petroleum and natural gas Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday that the \u201creal growth story as a critical driver of (fuel) demand will come from India\u201d. Puri was speaking at the inauguration of the oil and gas sectoral floor in the India Pavilion at the Expo 2020 held in Dubai. Pointing out the government\u2019s strategies for accelerating investments in the Indian oil and gas value chain, Puri said that steps have been taken to increase the areas under oil and gas exploration. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}